Overview

To understand the state of the art in operating systems and distributed systems, and how and why we got there.

To understand how to engage in systems research.

To investigate novel ideas in systems through a semester-long research project.

Please note: This course is open to SCS Ph.D. students. Other students may be admitted by the permission of the instructor; please attend the first few sessions to see if you're interested. Enrollment will be limited to 24 students to ensure sufficient "face-time" for project meetings.

This course assumes a basic familiarity with operating sytems concepts.
The course will consist of a reading/lecture/discussion component
and a project component. The class will cover approximately 40
research papers. Some of these
papers will introduce students to the basic principles on
which modern operating systems and distributed systems are based.
Others will cover more recent work to explore the state of the art and observe the evolution of these systems over time.

Students are expected to read papers before the class and
participate in the discussion during the class.

Lecture time: MWF 15:00 - 16:20Note: Class will meet on average two times per week. But there are more classes at the start of the semester. See the syllabus for the exact schedule.

Course Staff

Instructor

Teaching Assistants

Name

Email

Office

Tel

Office Hours

Iulian Moraru

iulian AT cs DOT cmu DOT edu

GHC 9113

268-7661

By Appointment

Course Secretary

Angela Miller amiller AT cs DOT cmu DOT edu, GHC 9118

Course Policies

Collaboration

Students are encouraged to talk to each other, to the course staff,
or to anyone else about any of the assignments.
Assistance must be limited to discussion of the problem and
sketching general approaches to a solution. Each student must write
out his or her own solutions to the homework.

Late Policy

The deadline for any assignment
can be extended with a 10% penalty per day.

No deadline can be extended by more than two days.
Assignments will NOT
be accepted 48 hours after the due date.

The project presentations must be given on the day they
are scheduled.